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Article: Senate Ethics Committee Responds to Democracy 21 Request for Abramoff Investigation
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- February 17, 2006
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Nov. 22, 2005, Democracy
21 wrote to the Senate Ethics Committee calling for an ethics
investigation "to determine whether Senators engaged in official acts
to influence a case-specific regulatory matter at the Interior
Department that benefited lobbyist Jack Abramoff's clients, and
received contributions and financial favors from Abramoff and these
clients, in violation of Senate ethics rules."
In a letter sent today to Democracy 21 by the Senate Ethics
Committee, the Committee stated that it "has decided to defer, at
this time, its determinations as to the allegations referred to in
your November 22, 2005, letter to the Committee and in other ...